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Identifier: ForeststreamXXVIA (find matches)
Title: Forest and stream
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Periodicals Hunting Fishing Outdoor life Sports
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : (Forest and Stream Publishing Co.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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were given to mem-bers of the winning Corinthian crews. . ... After Thursdays disappointment, Friday came in cool, with a fineN W. breeze, promising a rattling run out and beat home; but. alasfor the uncertainties of yachting. Saturday was just such a day ascomes only too often, and shows at its very wor<t the tortuous, land-locked, tide-beset course common to New :Yorks larger clubs. Theday was fair and bright, a perfect day for the ladies on the cluosteamer Cygnus; a very light air from the north, but it soon diedout only to be followed by cairns and then streaks of wind from thesouth dealt out unevenly and robbing the race of all interest, whileto teli its story exactly is a difficult if not impossible task, owing tothe many different breezes served to the yachts at the same time.The clear weather made it possible to pick out pearly tbe entire fleet,though scattered from the Hook to Hoffman Islands; but to say JustWhat wind any given one had was another matter. Before going into
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details, the race is best described by a summary based on a view ofthe whole days performance. Of tbe big ones, the best actual sailing was probably done by May-flower, in spite of some disadvantages under which she labored, nota-bly a lack of proper drill in her crew, as might be expected, and alsoto some imperfections in her new sails and some blunders in sailing. At the start she was terribly handicapped, being almost the lastover, her spinnaker not being set in time to bring her down, whileshe lost time when just over in shifting it for a larger one. She madeup her loss at times in a wonderful manner, notably in coming up toBuoy 10 at the start, but lost time off the Hook trying to outluffPtiscilla, while third place was fairly hers had she held her Spinna-ker from Buoy 10 to the finish. Puritan sailed better in Crockers hands than on the previous days,as was to be expected, but she was greatly favored by the wind, nota-bly iff Nortons Point, when the south wind struck in, and lat

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